Unit 4 Listen and Read:
Object Oriented Programming
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming language model organized around "objects" rather than "actions" and data rather than logic. Historically, a program has been viewed as a logical procedure that takes input data, processes it, and produces output data. The programming challenge was seen as how to write the logic, not how to define the data. Object-oriented programming takes the view that what we really care about are the objects we want to manipulate rather than the logic required to manipulate them. Designing computer programs with the approach of object oriented programming begins with defining the objects that are to be manipulated by the program. Once the objects are identified, the programmer will begin to identify the relationship between each object. This process is usually referred to as data modeling. Essentially, the programmer is seeking to place the objects into a classification, thus helping to define the data that is part of the inheritance brought to the task by each object.